skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"Flash Player reached its official end of life (EOL) on December 31, 2020, when Adobe officially stopped supporting the software.

To prevent the app from continuing to be used in the real-world to the detriment of users and their security, Adobe also began blocking Flash content from playing inside the app starting January 12, with the help of a time-bomb mechanism.

As Adobe hoped, this last step worked as intended and prevented companies from continuing using the software, forcing many to update systems and remove the app.

As SARS tweeted on January 12, the agency was impacted by the time-bomb mechanism,

and starting that day, the agency was unable to receive any tax filings via its web portal,

where the upload forms were designed as Flash widgets."

PDS: There's a greater problem at stake here. That problem can broadly be summarized as follows:

1) What happens when all forms of money/payment become electronic;

2) What happens when, for whatever reason, the underlying electronic system (which includes but is not limited to Computers, Software, Internet, etc.) -- fails?

Use another electronic system, right?

Well then what about:

3) What happens when one or more crucial components in ALL electronic payment systems (Internet, Electricity, Software, ?) -- fail simultaneously, at the same time?

?

It could never happen?

?

If you truly believe that, then please read the following:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a...

Perhaps having equal parts Gold, Silver, Currency, and a stock of easily tradeable items (Coffee, Sugar, Flour, Soup Cans, Noodles, Water Filtration Devices, Batteries, etc.) would be a good hedge against that possibility...

Also, the right survival skills -- would be as valuable as Gold...
I would also really like to know how you set this up.

I've been thinking about this kind of setup for my and my family's data, at least.
Do simulations represent the real world at the atomic scale?
Yep, that's the tradeoff. As with seemingly everything else, you can thank Claude Shannon for that.
Yeah, this is the exact kind of behavior that made me finally nuke my Windows install for good (although Adobe crap eventually forced me to dual-boot again). The irony of Mozilla copying Microsofts anti-features does not escape me and I sure hope this doesn't continue...
100% this.

A large number of our users on GitLab are Ops, Artists, Marketing or similar groups that can utilize GitLab a little (like leaving comments, or doing straight commits, no ci/cd/security/etc). $20/mo/user means some don't get access and the Ultimate plan at $100/mo/user? Oh hell no. No one would have access to GitLab except for maybe a dozen core devs.
Yes comments about the content should be solicited, and also questions like "then how can I do this...". In other words a FAQ section for each page would be great. Curated of course.
I mean... if they said that they were wrong. The default is clearly mad.
Nitpicking: Note that this only applies to some sugars like Sucrose that is the normal sugar used at home, and also Glucose. (The model he has in his hand in the minute 14 is probably Glucose. (I'm too lazy to check the direction of all the OH.) Sucrose has approximately the double of size.)

But other sugars like Fructose (found in fruits and honey) rotate the light in the other direction.

Using the dry noodles metaphor, there are many brands and you can buy some that rotate in one direction and other that are different and rotate in the opposite direction.
So basically Facebook is like, you and you, fight! Also buy our weapons.
My mother believes that stuff, so I did not have glasses as kid and could not see much

It worked well enough that my myopia did not progress. However, I got bad astigmatism

Optometrists are really bad at measuring anything. Endmyopia probably works best for people who never had myopia, but the optometrists just measured some temporary accommodation as myopia. They always kept measuring my astigmatism as myopia for years. Only now that they have modern wavefront aberrometers, the device could tell them that they have measured the cylinder as 2 diopters too weak
Amen! I wonder if such a thing might happen now that it's open sourced?
Some time ago corruption was direct. Now a lot of corruption and business is done trough "science".

If any science is related to politics or there is some business/financial incentive I just assume it's skewed.

Take for example the harvard study that is responsible for the US obesity. The study found that sugar does not make you fat, because of food conpanies.

Or the guy that discovered the ulcer cause and cure. It was ignored because the fake ulcer treatment industry was a multi billion dollar one.

The "I F***g LOVE science" guys that will beleive anything, because SCIENCE are the worst
Isn't 5 part of 4? To enter into relations, you first need to be recognized.
They once overnighted Tom Cruise' car https://youtu.be/Ok2NWF53bUY
It's a weird thing since I have to imaging people that might buy that kind of thing already have it, or would be searching for it on other forums ( I have ).
Interesting - can anyone else confirm this?
There are other interesting factors to look for as well. Temperature, moisture, electrical noise on the power rails, infrasound, etc.
> I'm curious about their cache invalidation solution

My guess: there would be a model somewhere (probably a binary relay map of walls) of the maze, and as soon as the mouse hits an inconsistency, this map is updated. So there isn't really a cache, it's more like a model, or perhaps you can think of collision-based cache (model) invalidation. The mouse probably then follows the solution to this modified maze, modified only insofar as it has measured modifications.

Is there a technical specification somewhere? I'd certainly be curious to read it.
This is not surprising or really noteworthy, is it? It seems to be some confirmation of FB targeting working as expected.
Shouldn't it be "advertisers are targeting rightwing Facebook users with..."? I was under the impression that it was the advertiser who chooses the target audience.
I'm shocked how people who are correctly formulating this as an attempt to frame black people a criminals and to scare white people are down voted! Open your eyes people! And if you care about your fellow humans, please report it
Linux distributors frustrated by Google's new Chromium web browser restrictions
I'm just saying that if they're playing moderately accurately, the note will read transposed, but it will be correctly annotated as sharp or flat.
Not many HN comments are worthy of a literal “laugh out loud”.

But this one is.
> but still thinks Google is 'as good a place as any' for passwords and bookmarks.

I do think it is as good a place as any for those things, and you can encrypt bookmarks and passwords that are synced to google servers: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/165139?co=GENIE.Pla...
Does GitLab have an option to pick the major cloud data center it hosts in? Cross data center network transfer is a no-go.
I have an android phone, using Brave on a Samsung flagship from 2 years ago.

The test at amiunique.org tells me my User Agent string is unique.

So, can we now fix the User Agent strings, please?
temporary containers is really nice. but how can you replace MAC with it? I tried before couldn't assign some domains to "permanent" containers.

eg. I'd like use temp containers all the time, except for some sites like YouTube where I'd like it to always open in a YouTube container
A curated list of examples of self-reference in art, science, and technology
there has not been a single randomized large scale study on any vaccine that investigates its relationship to autism. without that, the bars are too big. and the relationship is extremely tiny. from a practical perspective, it isnt even worth going after. the studies that have been done so far prove that it wouldnt be worth it to stop vaccinations, not even close. but they dont definitively disprove a connection. they only disprove a meaningful connection.
> It was written at a different time, with different best practices.

Not that I have any faith in modern "best practices". I'm imagining `grep` written in modern a modern language like JS and I shutter when I think of the hundreds of micro-dependencies like "left-pad" that would need to be downloaded to make it work.

Maybe it's fair to say that systems programming languages are in a better state in terms of modern best practices than scripting languages.
Mine has two alternatives: Clock or blinking red light. I choose the clock...
> aligned such that we occasionally get to see a perfect solar eclipse and the sun's corona with our naked eyes.

Uh...don't do that. It'll end up being the last thing you see.
Inferring human genomes at a fraction of the current cost
Can you be tracked within the private browsing mode though? For instance in Chrome private tabs I know if you log in to something then open a new tab, that tab retains the cookies from the private session until you close all private tabs. Is this the same with Firefox? I'm hesitant to install yet another extension but I'm wondering if this one mentioned elsewhere in this thread will fix it, if it is the case with firefox

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...
As I understand it, habitats would need to be under some ground, and there really isn't much to do outside. So what'd be the point of lighting the surface up?
Yep and if they turn out to be right then I’ll be glad they were staying vigilant on behalf of the rest of us.
Most of the smartest people of my generation have dedicated their lives to building super-computers to point at peoples' brains and make them want to buy things.

I suppose it's marginally better than fractionally growing somebody else's pile of money.
You are being far, far, far too generous with the complexity of this design if you think there's some kind of cache invalidation. It's a purely mechanical computer, which means it is going to be very simple in abstract design, because doing anything even mildly complex would require an insane amount of space.

I can't find design documents for this, but I can make a pretty educated guess about its design.

Each square has two relays, representing the number of left turns necessary to exit the square. Each time a whisker touches a wall, a signal is sent to a mechanical adder which will add 1 to the relays in the space. When the mouse enters a square, a "register" is set with a value, based on if it entered from the left, top, right, or bottom, then the mouse is turned and the register decremented until it hit 0, then the mouse attempts to walk in the indicated direction.

The maze ends up looking something like this:

+-----+
|0|1 1|
+-- - +
|1 3|0|
+ --- +
|1 3|x|
+-- --+

Where the mice starts on x and turns the number of times in each square. You can actually put the mouse down anywhere and it will exit the maze, if the walls are left unchanged.
> I definitely think this way about software, and more recently, about things I can make out of wood.

Yes, exactly. Though, I have to say, going from software to hardware was quite magical: You can suddenly affect the physical world, which is amazing. Plus, if you already know software, adding hardware to the mix rounds you out very well, and opens up a large array of things you can make.

> Plastic or machined parts have always felt out of reach so I'm not in the habit of believing I can fix things that way yet.

I very strongly recommend designing a few things in OnShape or FreeCAD or SoveSpace and getting a 3D printer once you get the hang of that (it shouldn't take you very long at all, maybe a few evenings).

Machined parts I find pretty hard, but then again I also found plastic things impossible before getting a printer and they turned out to be quite easy.
What do you think about Covid-19 Smell tests?
It is expensive, but it is accessible. Truvada for PrEP has a program both for insured patients that covers co-pays up to $7,200 per year (I pay zero dollars a year because of this), and a medication assistance program for uninsured patients where after signing up and meeting eligibility requirements (which are basically 'are you at risk of getting HIV' and 'are you not wealthy to the point where you should definitely be able to afford insurance') you receive the medication at zero cost.

This is true of many medications, but Truvada is especially famous for it. As a gay man I have a lot of friends on it, and because of the aforementioned program, only two of the thirty+ pay any co-pay at all, and it's something like 20 bucks for them.
Yeah, that's bound to happen on Linux if you run an update while Firefox is open. Being able to continue running while all your files get switched out from under you is a pretty big thing to ask from a program and I think they were having issues with crashes and risking corrupted profiles, so they made it do that just in case.

In my experience, running software updates while using the system is a pretty bad idea in general. It works well most of the time, but there's a reason Linux* is the only system that allows that (every other OS defers applying updates to a reboot).
Is this serious - crawling with starlink sats? At night I'm really not noticing starlink sats even on earth. What I'm noticing is MASSSIVE light pollution.

For an article about looking up with the human eye at the stars, the hit on starlink sats is so weird.

Starlink is probably going to be what makes internet initially possible on marks, may even be part of the mars - earth backhaul network, probably spacex will be helping host space based observation platforms (no dust / no atmo). etc.
As the archived repo implies, Google has stopped development on Tilt Brush:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/26/22250915/tilt-brush-googl...
There's very little planned obsolescence anywhere. It's more about racing to the bottom and building the chepest possible product that will hold for a while.
Regulation as a solution for problems on the Internet is pretty stupid because jurisdictions are so diverse.
Short squeeze like this have happened before. The most famous probably being Volkswagen in 2008, when they briefly became the most valuable company in the world. In that case hedge fund managers lost $30 billion, and Porsche (who orchestrated it) came out with $10 billion.

https://moxreports.com/vw-infinity-squeeze/

It's looking like GME is going to be similar, but at some point it'll basically come crashing down once all the shorts cover and such.
I was about to reply: because no one ever recovers from HIV infection. Then I realised it isn't true. People being treated for HIV are not contagious, so they "recover" in the epidemiological sense the moment they start treatment. The only way that can happen is if a lot of people have HIV but don't know it.
> (and many shells have a legacy behavior of running a file as a script if it doesn't start with a #! line.)

execlp and execvp are actually guaranteed to do this in POSIX-2017, although shells might also do this themselves if they resolve $PATH by themselves.
AMD KVM in WSL and basically anything that relies on the Windows Hypervisor won't work yet on AMD CPUs. You have to disable the Hypervisor support in Windows which allows other KVM capable VM managers like Qemu, Virtualbox, and VMWare to all run KVM VMs on AMD on Windows. Look at the 3rd or 4th answer here if you want two boot entries to be able to enable or disable the Windows Hypervisor at boot time from the boot menu. https://superuser.com/questions/540055/convenient-way-to-ena...
I'm not completely sure this is just political people. Up until recently I only got ads for kickstarter doodads and airtable, but then it suddenly switched to gun stuff. I don't browse any firearm or political communities, haven't bought stuff, don't watch firearm youtube videos, haven't even been window shopping.

There were 5 million new gun owners last year. I think the ad networks just view it as a highly probable click since so many people are suddenly showing interest in firearms that weren't before. Especially for people in my demo/geo... I am white and rural.
The demo is impressive. It's not clear how much of the software will be open source, or closed.
Malabar spinach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basella_alba
which is a vine.

Just learned about this one today.
Purslane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portulaca_oleracea
https://thatfijitaste.com/ any pointers would be good.
Checkitz – Campaigns
Yeah. I'm currently in Sweden, and it's like living in a third-world country all over again. They are now struggling to supply proper needles for the vaccine smh
Qualys is great! Love their vulnerability reports.

Just want to echo other praise here for doas. It's fantastic, most likely does everything you need it to do, and is secure. Install it and see for yourself!
He edited his comment to say “(for me)” after I had replied.

Also, if you click damnyou@‘s comment history, you’ll clearly see that he loves using the phrase “in fact” without supporting his assumptions. I didn’t deserve to be downvoted.
> The other problem with ultimate is that it strongly incentives you to NOT let anyone else on the platform.

This is my biggest problem as their pricing model discourages collaborative development.

We use GitLab to generate docs that are read by hundreds of internal users. On the free tier, if a user wants to suggest a change it’s no problem. Even though that is a very rare user and might only create one issue a year. Or maybe they add a tutorial or something to a project.

They aren’t developers, but having them involved in the git lifecycle is really helpful. Also data scientists who just want to archive their pipelines.

But with the ultimate tier those users suddenly cost $1200/year for minimal features. We can’t upgrade for free for the developers because we’ll disconnect all those “casual users.”

The suggestion to run two instances is stupid and confusing to users who now have to learn about mirroring, etc.

It’s weird that they don’t allow individual users to have tiers, we would buy more GitLab.

As of now, we will likely have to switch off of GitLab because there’s not a clear dividing line between software developers who need GitLab features and staff who write software who just need git, issue tracking, wikis and pages.
My Decentraleyes was updated in November 5th, that's not that long ago. LocalCDN extension has also a comment that Mozilla doesn't regularly monitor it for security.
That’s the same thing. In order for that tracking method to work, this uniquely named pixel has to be loaded while visiting multiple sites. So it ends up being multiple domains referencing the same image from some tracker resource.
The communists are only trying to save us from the facists!
The star link complaint seems kind of like how people must have been when telegram/power lines went up.
Even if there were basic unit & regression tests, this bug might not have been caught. This bug should have gone through detailed security review and should probably also undergo fuzzing.
I'm less of an optimist, I'm betting theyre taking over to slow its growth while keeping the back door open for when they need to start focusing on it.
If I can give you a strong hint: grandfather in everybody at todays rates and prices and simply drop the bronze plan from your new signup page. That way you keep your existing users happy. The last thing you want is to kill off your early adopters. Besides the very bad PR. I'm a huge gitlab advocate and this move sits wrong with me. Your 'bronze' users did not ask you to develop features that they probably won't use anyway so your justification to force them to pay more sounds hollow at best and disingenuous at worst. Fix it while you still can.
But from JavaScript I don’t think you can see that. You just get the end result of the image being served to you. You have to infer it from timing.
Yes, but it's not easy: you have timing risk, litigation risk, and SEC enforcement risk.
> the hardware lifetime "naturally" limits the lifetime of such applications

Oh, my sweet summer child. Of all the things that "naturally" limits the lifetime of such applications, that is not it. Consider the case of the mainframes running the US banking system, for example.
We need to acknowledge also that recognising the user as he moves across pages and domains is sometimes needed to provide valuable services to the user.

Therefore, I believe, browsers have to provide a volunteer "tracking" functionality - when a web page reqests 3rd party cookies, a popup is shown to the user with the cookie values, description (as set by the owning domain), the list of domains already permitted to access the cookies and their privacy policy links, and options Allow Once, Allow, Deny Once, Deny.

So instead of fighting each other, service and the user had a chance to cooperate. Service only needs to describe the need clear enough.
What posix actually requires is an awful mess and just as broken if not moreso.

Oh, you just said to sync the file, not the directory? Too bad, data's gone.
Every browser already has a unique fingerprint. uBlock origin does a ton to improve privacy, it’s foolish not to use it just to avoid fingerprinting.
I came from another post to see your commenting style. You use “in fact” a lot without supporting your statement lmao.

You were clearly the issue in the other thread.
The press release:

https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/all-news/2021/jan/lobster-concr...

Links the paper:

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/3dp.2020.0172

Figure 2 shows it is more than just criss-cross, the layout rotates for each layer following a pattern.
The best possible service through the transition: no change.
If retail investors join the fantasy economy there is less value to extract from the real economy.